Dick Guanique, labor avant -garde representative said that all workers’ rights are being violated. The freedom of political prisoners, the cessation of repression, the salary increase, are needs, are aspirations that today has the entire people of Venezuela »
Guilds and representatives of leftist parties protested against the “repressive actions” unleashed by the administration of Nicolás Maduro towards workers, civil and union leaders and civil society after the presidential elections of 2024. In a document, they demanded that the Ombudsman’s Office pronounced on these issues.
From Plaza Morelos, to the center of Caracas, dozens of workers demanded the arrest of at least seven union leaders, the immediate freedom of all political prisoners, as they expressed their rejection of stigmatization, persecution and harassment against human rights activist Martha Lía Lía Grajales and the Committee of Mothers in Defense of the Truth, attacked a week before the Supreme Court of Justice in a vigil.
Also together with political prisoners, «the Venezuelan minimum wage is also imprisoned, it is drowned as a consequence of a disastrous, neoliberal and reactionary policy generated by the government. We ask the National Government to release the minimum wage, to increase the salary to the workers who are currently in a critical situation, ”said Eduardo Sánchez, president of the UCV Workers’ Union (SINATRA UCV).
Like other unionists, he said that the minimum salary of 130 bolivars – less than an official rate of the BCV – is lower than countries such as Bangladesh or Myanmar. He rejected the bonus imposed from the same executive, as he described him as “a very small substitution, they are putting on the salary.”
Dick Guanique, labor avant -garde representative said that all workers’ rights are being violated. The freedom of political prisoners, the cessation of repression, the salary increase, are needs, are aspirations that today has the entire people of Venezuela ».
«We are not terrorists, we are not in conspiracy. We are demanding that the Constitution be respected and that is not a crime although this work has been criminalized, although we are pursued by that request, ”said Guanique, who recalled the recent arrest of Rusbelia Astudillo, lawyer and defender of rights of retirees.
*Also read: They denounce arbitrary detention of Rusbelia Astudillo, defender of Human Retirees
For his part, Carlos Salazar, representative of the Trade Union Coalition, indicated that “the disappearance and absence of the salary is not right now, it comes since 2022 (…) Today that the minimum wage are four daily bolivars the borrowing calculation ended, the holidays is over, the calculation of the bonuses is over, the social security of our workers is over.”
He also claimed Nicolás Maduro to report what happened to the special contribution of pensions established in May 2024. “We want answers about that 9%, about the protection of salary and freedom for our co -workers.”
Detained and harassed workers
According to the union coalition, at least seven union leaders are detained in the country, without taking into account the recent arbitrary detention of lawyer Rusbelia Astudillo. In the protest, they criticized the presence of security forces as troops and the PNB, an issue they described as “harassment.”
“We want to disassemble all campaign and opinion matrix that some government sectors have been weaving to treat a moral sicariate against social leaders,” said Eduardo Sánchez.
The workers raised the specific cases of Juan Valo, detained in the Bolívar state, and Oglis Ramos Garrido, who was arrested in the Apure state more than 75 days and his family does not know his whereabouts. They also demanded the release of Enrique Márquez and that the safeguard is delivered to the lawyer María Alejandra Díaz, asslated in the Colombian Embassy.
In the document delivered to the Ombudsman’s Office, the movements of workers asked the defender Alfredo Ruiz to impartially investigate the aggressions suffered by a group of mothers of post -election political prisoners before the TSJ. They asked the highest court to deliver the videos of the security cameras.
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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